Retry Games / Stay To Play presents:
The Far Lands Challenge
The Idea:
On the 6th of September 2025 I (b_w_johan) randomly came up with the idea to set up a mini challenge for some of the players on the Retry Games SMP. I wanted to see who of us would be able to reach the Far Lands First. Did a bit of research, tried to make the members enthusiastic but we where not able to start this challenge of with 8 SMP members, so we (Open Tanyao) found 2 more players to join our challenge. One of them actually accepted the invite (Deeply) So, we now had 2 "full" groups and 2 teams taking of solo untill we would find more players and we would teleport them to the coordinates they where currently at so even though the new recruits might miss out on the first few hours and or hundreds of blocks of traveling, they would be able to just join in. We set up the server, came up with some idea's and we are happy to explain everything during our first video's.
The first nearest 10.000 milestone challenge
We want _you_ the viewers of our streams and video's to suggest us a challenge we can do at the nearest 10k marker.
When the first of the four teams reached the first round 10k milestone they asked chat what challenge they wanted to be performed.
We listed the ones we created ourselves in our discord channel, and gave them the option to come up with a custom challenge if they prefered.
The first challenge we got suggested by twitch-chat: Collect and play a music disc and make a screenshot with an impressive background.
Vote for your favorite milestone challenge execution in the Discord server.
We will accept new challenges once every team completed their first milestone challenge.
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27 - 09 - 2025 - 17.00UTC
The show kicks off! Will update this blogpost with links to the vods/youtube/discordposts etc related to the event starting!
We had to do 3 world resets before we found a "valid" world where we could gather some resources and leave in each direction.
14 - 09 - 2025
Put out a video searching for more players to join the challenge. Johan's invitational video super coincidentally, AntVenom posted a video that exact day telling everyone that Kurt would reach the Far Lands after 14 years. Which shocked me because i thought this would take a few months. This related incident might have boosted views on my video with the words Far Lands in the title, haven't had a video explode that much in a long time (yeah i've hidden hundreds of videos).